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Bowmark Capital, the private equity firm, makes investments in UK growth companies valued at up to £150m. Bowmark invests across a range of industries with a focus on business and financial services, consumer and leisure, education and training, healthcare, media and technology.

The London-based firm has £850m under management and its investor base includes public pension funds, insurance companies and banks based in the US, the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

Bowmark's investments have included: Leaders Lettings and Romans, two property services companies which were merged into a single entity in March 2016; Autodata, the automotive technical information provider; CARE Fertility, Britain's largest chain of fertility clinics; Drake & Morgan, the London-based bar and restaurant group; Aston Scott, the insurance broker; Oxford International Education Group; Kisimul, which provides services to children affected by learning disabilities; Law Business Research; CSL DualCom, which provides technology for burglar alarms; Nexus Vehicle Solutions, a rental vehicle broker; elderly care provider, Healthcare Homes; JacTravel, the B2B hotel accommodation wholesaler; Regard, a UK residential care provider for people with learning difficulties; securities data provider, Data Explorers; Education & Adventure Travel Group; Advanced Childcare, which provides care and education to young people with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties; Living Ventures, the restaurant and bar group; Medscreen, which provides drug and alcohol testing services; Datix, the healthcare software provider; RDF Media, the UK television production company; iPrism, the underwriting agency; and Las Iguanas, the Latin American dining chain.

The firm is currently investing Bowmark Capital Partners V, a £375m fund, which was raised at the end of 2013. The fund was predominantly backed by existing investors and was oversubscribed, in common with its prior fund, Bowmark Capital Partners IV, a £265m vehicle raised in 2008. The previous fund, Bowmark Capital Partners III, raised in 2004, is reported to have generated a return of approximately 4x money to its investors.

The Bowmark team, led by managing partners Charles Ind and Kevin Grassby, was originally established as Sagitta Private Equity in 1997 and spun out of Sagitta group in 2004.